Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPHERAL CHANGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this new shade of death Last Line: And you may wait and I may come? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
IN THIS new shade of Death, the show Passes me still of form and face; Some bent, some gazing as they go, Some swiftly, some at a dull pace, Not one that speaks in any case. If only one might speak!--the one Who never waits till I come near; But always seated all alone As listening to the sunken air, Is gone before I come to her. O dearest! while we lived and died A living death in every day, Some hours we still were side by side, When where I was you too might stay And rest and need not go away. O nearest, furthest! Can there be At length some hard-earned heart-won home, Where,--exile changed for sanctuary,-- Our lot may fill indeed its sum, And you may wait and I may come? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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